Christie is your usual head in the sand republican, if life were run by conservatives we would still be in a cave howling at the moon - most republicans are still there. One Jersey teacher told me the usual ramification of education cutbacks: the teachers and important staff get the boot, the administrators and power players continue to milk the system. Nothing changes under republicans, the comedy, or is that tragedy, is they still work the media so well.
"There is no test of the good society so clear, so decisive, as its willingness to tax - to forgo private income, expenditures and the expensively cultivated superfluities of private consumption - in order to develop and sustain a strong educational system for all its citizens. The economic rewards of so doing are not in doubt. Nor the political gains. But the true reward is in the larger, deeper, better life for everyone that only education provides." John Kenneth Galbraith, The Good Society
"There is no test of the good society so clear, so decisive, as its willingness to tax - to forgo private income, expenditures and the expensively cultivated superfluities of private consumption - in order to develop and sustain a strong educational system for all its citizens. The economic rewards of so doing are not in doubt. Nor the political gains. But the true reward is in the larger, deeper, better life for everyone that only education provides." John Kenneth Galbraith, The Good Society